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Title: Paxton's Magazine of Botany and Register of Flowering Plants
Year: 1841 (1840s)
Authors: Paxton, Sir Joseph, 1803-1865.
Subjects: Botany--Periodicals Flowers--Periodicals.
Publisher: London: W. S. Orr and Co.
Contributing Library: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, McLean Library
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e that we met with it in great perfection last autumn at the gardens of MadameRothschild, Gunnersbiuy Park, where it is cultivated very successfully by Mr.Mills, the gardener, and from whence we were permitted to procure the accom-panying representation. In the stove of ilrs. Lawrence, Ealing Park, we have also observed mostluxuriant specimens, with upwards of fifty distinct stems, all regularly arranored soas to form a globular mass, and most of them finely in flower. It is potted, eachspring, in an enriched loamy soil, shaking off the greater part of the old earth, andreducing the roots a little. Further shifting is attended to as the plant progresses,and it is watered liberally till the stems decay in autumn, when it must be kept drythrough the winter. Cuttings, prepared from those shoots which are not surmounted by blossoms,and which manifest no indications of flowering, root with facility in a gentle heat. Cuplica is taken from cuphos, curved, the capsule having a curved outline.
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/. ///rrf^f/tt /L ^/./t/ayn-M ?/ 199 TROPiEOLUM MORITZIANUM. (moUITzs INDIAN CHESS.)CLASS. ORDER. OCTANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. NATURAL ORDER. TROPjEOLACE.ffl. Generic Character.— Ca/^.f five-parted; upper lobe spurred. P^^a/5 five, unequal ; three lower onessmaller and evanescent. Stamens eight, free from each other at the base. Carpels three, siib-erose, kiduey-shapcd, indchisceut, furrowed, roundish. Seeds large, without albumen, attached tothe cell, and conforming to it in shape. Embryo large. Cotyledons two, stmight and thick. Specific Character.—Plant au herbaceous perennial. Stems climbing. Leaves peltate, inclining to aroundish figure, smooth, with seven or nine lobes. Petals with coloured veins, nearly equal inlength to the segments of the calyx ; two inferior ones cuneate, fimbriated at the top, three superiorones spatulatc, fimbriated above, with the claw much ciliated. If this new and scarce species of Tropccolum produced an equal number offlowers to T. tricolorum, which is on

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